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[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don't worry, we're not far away from 2038, when 32 bit unix time rolls over ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I will be so excited if we make it that far, double if I'm alive to see it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

double

I hope you're not storing time in floating point.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The Y9999.999999871K bug

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We won't be around, but Unix time will be.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

This is correct Unix time is eternal i kinda wished we would change the calendar again 1970 is just as arbitrary as 2024 years ago so why not set the mark at 1970. Tomorrow will be Jan 1st 0055

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hopefully we are all working on 64 bit dates, right? right? </Padme mode> :^)

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

What, and miss out on all the overtime pay from fixing everything at the last minute?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A surprising number of embedded devices (you know, the ones controlling machinery in factories and stuff) are still running 32-bit processors.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

But you can still do 64 bit math on a 32 bit processor, if you have a carry/borrow flag.